Fellini began it with Marcello on the big screen when it was "8 1/2." Then Tommy Tune had his way with it on Broadway after Katherine Hepburn gave it a nudge and it became the Tony Award winning musical "NINE." In 2009 that musical hit the big screen with Daniel Day Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Nicole [...]
I just came from the theater and it was one of the most satisfying experiences I have had all season. I never read Chaim Potok's MY NAME IS ASHER LEV but this stage adaptation powerfully communicates what it's like to have a talent so strong it will out no matter the cost to the artist [...]
There's something astonishing happening at the A.R.T. right now. Veteran actor Tom Derrah is starring in a one man show as visionary scientist,inventor,teacher, designer "R.BUCKMINSTER FULLER," inventor of the Geodesic Dome. The production is a wild ride through the extraordinary ideas of Milton MA born Fuller who had a mind Harvard couldn't hold. They expelled [...]
Here's the best of what's onstage right now in Boston: "RUINED" at the Huntington Theatre!! This 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner will tear you apart. It's set in the middle of the Congo's civil war, where rape is a weapon and women bear the deepest scars; they are "ruined" physically and emotionally. As one character finally [...]
Trailer:THE BLUE FLOWER It just about broke my heart. THE BLUE FLOWER is a gorgeous kaleidoscope of sight and sound. It's the A.R.T.'s latest, a multimedia musical play with video, movement, song and dance, live band and a killer cast of seven juggling a new "language," and many achingly beautiful songs. THE BLUE FLOWER is [...]
Not even close. NICHOLAS NICKELBY is the clear champ, springing from 19th century England by way of Dickens, into 21st century New England by way of adapter David Edgar and artistic director Spiro Veloudos. This Lyric Stage Company production is a regional premiere of a work seldom performed because of its size and scope; "The [...]
Never heard of Shirley, Vermont? It's a figment of playwright Annie Baker's imagination and is the setting for a trilogy of plays that have recently found a home in our town: CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION, BODY AWARENESS, and THE ALIENS. I finally saw all of them beginning with "CIRCLE" presented by THE HUNTINGTON about the interpersonal [...]
THE BUS STOPS HERE! Don't miss it: The Huntington Theatre Company refuels Inge's classic comedy BUS STOP and its season is off to a roaring start! I must admit, I had my reservations, having never seen a theatrical production, and was only familiar with the dull 1956 Josh Logan movie in which Marilyn Monroe played [...]
Publick Theatre's production of Tom Stoppard's THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND is a real dog. Bow wow. And it's not just because I've recently been in court on account of my unfortunate encounter with a creature of the canine persuasion. (See THE CASE OF THE WAYWARD WEIMARANER blog post). No no no. If the playwright saw [...]
Life is a CABARET-- but not quite--at the A.R.T.'s production of the Kander and Ebb musical presented at their ultra flexible, glammo theatre space turned nightclub, Oberon. It's the perfect setting for this show--better than artistic director Diane Paulus' smash THE DONKEY SHOW last season which turned Shakespeare into A disco-fevered Midsummer Night's Dream. This [...]
